Excluding and restricting the use of technology from risk countries (JUSTDIGI)

The machine-readable notice includes the standard exclusion grounds for criminal convictions, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud and other mandatory exclusion grounds. The bidder or its management, administrative or supervisory body members, or persons with power to represent, decide for or control the bidder may be excluded if they have a final conviction within the relevant period. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may be allowed to provide evidence of self-cleaning measures, where permitted by law or the procurement documents. The exact exclusion grounds and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the official tender documents.

The bidder must form a team of at least 3 members for contract performance: 1 project manager, 1 legal analysis expert and 1 risk analysis expert. The project manager must have experience managing at least 2 completed analysis projects. The legal analysis expert must have at least a master’s degree or equivalent higher education in law and demonstrable experience in at least 1 project completed within the last 36 months before the start of the procurement; the project must have involved either a risk-based approach with security and/or supply-chain risk analysis in the public sector or critical infrastructure context, or analysis of a public-sector regulatory or legal framework with proposals based on it. The expert must have participated as an analyst, methodologist or expert. The risk analysis expert must have at least a master’s degree or equivalent higher education in law, security, public administration, cybersecurity or a related field, and demonstrable experience in at least 1 project completed within the last 36 months before the start of the procurement; the project must have involved either a risk-based approach with security and/or supply-chain risk analysis in the public sector or critical infrastructure context, or analysis of a public-sector regulatory or legal framework with proposals based on it. The bidder must keep this team in place for the whole contract period and prove the team’s existence and compliance when submitting the bid. The bid must include the team details on the buyer’s form and copies of the documents proving the required education. The bidder must also submit a service description covering the initial work plan and schedule, the methodology and its suitability, the planned tasks and dependencies, and the project team division of work. The bid must confirm compliance with the required structure for the bid price and, where relevant, provide evidence of equivalence for any equivalent solution.